Anannya Dasgupta directs the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea University where she is also an Associate Professor of Literature in the Division of Literature and the Arts. Among her publications are single authored essays, such as: The Feminist De-brahmanising Pedagogy of Writing, a monograph:  Magical Epistemologies: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern English Drama;  collection of essays, Writing In Academia, co-edited, along with Madhura Lohokare and co-written essays “Something of Our Own to Say” and “Globalising Writing Pedagogy.” Her current work is focused on developing writing pedagogies for the Indian classrooms from school to the university level.

Shilpa Phadke is a professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is the co–author of the book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (2011). She is co-editor of Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo In India and South Africa (2022) and Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx (2023). She is the co–director of the documentary film Under the Open Sky (2016). 

She was Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor in South Asian Studies at Brandeis University, USA in Spring 2018; International Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, UK in 2017; Faculty Exchange Fellow at the University of Münster, Germany in Spring 2016; and the ICCR Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany in Spring–Summer 2015. 

Shilpa Phadke is currently researching friendship and its possibilities and translating a diary written by her great-grandmother in 1921. She has published in academic books and journals in the areas of gender and urban public space, ethnographies of feminism, feminist pedagogy, risk and the city, middle–class sexualities, middle classes and the new spaces of consumption in the city, feminist pedagogies, feminist parenting, and friendship. She also writes regularly in the popular media, both in print and online, on concerns related to gender and the city.